Regional economic integration is considered as an efficient mean to accelerate economic development of the participating states. It is therefore one of the major themes of the next UNCTAD conference. One famous example of integration between developing countries is LAFTA (Latin American Free...

Ghana and the Ivory Coast are two neighbouring states of the West Coast of Africa so similar in size, geography, resource endowment, stage of economic development in terms of per capita income and capacity to develop at the date of independence (Ghana 1957 and Ivory Coast 1960), that a...